First of all, thank you for tackling this issue! I think the speed regression is mild enough that it is not too pressing an issue.
On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:44:58 AM UTC-8, Simon King wrote: > > * Should I modify my weak version of > `sage.structure.coerce_dict.TripleDict` so that strong references are > used in the first place, but so that the oldest references are > "weakened" when the dictionary grows bigger than a certain threshold? > That is likely to fix the example above and other types of examples as > well, but may create an overhead. As far as implementation goes, you just have to put every newly-generated entry also in a fixed-size ring buffer. I don't think that this would incur measurable overhead. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
